Court documents can say the most amusing things. What’s wrong with this sentence?
“We can only view AT&T’s and Cingular’s continued attempt to jeopardize NASCAR’s relationship with NETEL [sic] as tortuous [sic] interference with this agreement.”
Here you’ve got two big corporations, AT&T and NASCAR, going at it in a federal lawsuit with maybe $1 billion in play, give or take a few hundred mil. The outcome could have profound effects on NASCAR and the way it does business.
At issue is whether sponsor AT&T should be allowed to change the brand logos on Jeff Burton’s car from Cingular, a brand it owns but is phasing out, to AT&T. NASCAR maintains that would violate its exclusivity contract with Nextel as title sponsor of the elite Cup series. NASCAR says Cingular, not AT&T, was the brand grandfathered into the Nextel agreement.
So let’s read the sentence again, in a March 14 letter from NASCAR’s general counsel to AT&T’s general counsel, and entered Monday as an exhibit in U.S. District Court in Atlanta.
“We can only view AT&T’s and Cingular’s continued attempt to jeopardize NASCAR’s relationship with NETEL [sic] as tortuous [sic] interference with this agreement.”
Surely these were typos, but of all places to make them. NASCAR is fighting to protect a $700 million deal with Nextel and doesn’t even get the purportedly precious brand name right.
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ok if they NASCAR wont let them sponsor RCR, and they dont pay for anything on the team, you cant really do that, because its not fair, NASCAR gets money from NETEL (as they spelt it in the court document) but RCR cant get money from AT&T because of that, so Nextel, or most likely NASCAR should pay them the equal amount, so that it is fair. Yes you must respect Nextel, but they should be allowed to have whatever sponsor they want, its bull if they dont, cause like Robby Gordon, cant always find more sponsors then Motorola, cause he is not an established team and no body knows if that will ever become a bigger company, and actually Advertise that well.